Mukund H. Sharma
TEL: 650.815.2645FAX: 650.815.2601
Palo Alto
379 Lytton Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94301
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Mukund H. Sharma
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Mukund Sharma is an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in the firm's Palo Alto office.
Areas of Practice
Mr. Sharma specializes in all areas of intellectual property law, with emphases in patent prosecution, patent litigation, and strategic patent counseling, particularly in the electrical, computer, and mechanical arts.
Mr. Sharma previously worked at an IP boutique law firm, served the Federal Public Defender for the District of Nevada as an Assistant Federal Public Defender, and was a R&D engineer at the computer server division of a large computer manufacturer.
Mr. Sharma presently holds an inactive Top-Secret security clearance with the ability to access Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (TS//SCI).
Education
- J.D., U.C. Hastings College of the Law, 2006, Public Interest Concentration
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, U.C. Irvine, 2000
- B.S., Mathematics, U.C. Irvine 2000
Admissions
- California
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- United States District Court for the Central District of California
- United States District Court for the Northern District of California
- United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Languages
- Spanish
Patent Prosecution and Counseling
Drafted and prosecuted patent applications across a diverse array of technologies. Specific work has included prosecution, including drafting applications and pursuing Office Action responses leading to allowance for:
- multinational broadband mobility technology manufacturer
- global leader in power semiconductor management circuits and systems
- global wireless and broadband communication chip maker
- world's largest media conglomerate
- maker of analog and power efficient chips
- companies developing cloud-based software
- maker of airport security and media systems
Researched and briefed several appeals before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.
Participated in several Ex Parte reexamination and Inter Partes reexamination proceedings related to pending patent litigations.
Worked as an ASIC designer and as a software engineer from 2000-2003 at Unisys Corp.
Litigation
Served the Federal Public Defender for the District of Nevada from 2006-2009, and represented indigent death row habeas corpus petitioners and indigent persons accused of federal crimes in high-stakes litigation. Specific work has included:
- Pre-trial representation, including conducting federal court hearings, in cases involving alleged immigration violations, narcotics trafficking, RICO violations, violent crimes, federal misdemeanors, and other federal criminal matters.
- Securing the pre-trial release of a person accused to be the Nevada leader of the "Mongols" motorcycle gang in multi-district RICO and drug trafficking indictment.
- Participating in the representation of, including obtaining favorable pre-trial motions in, writ of habeas corpus and Detainee Treatment Act petitions for a Guantanamo Bay detainee facing the death penalty in military court.
Participated in all stages of investigation, research, and drafting of about a dozen writs of habeas corpus for indigent Nevada inmates challenging death sentences.
Publication and Personal Patent
Problems and Solutions: Patent Prosecution Tools for Litigators, 2011 Wint. Fed. Bar I.P. Legal Browser 7.
Co-inventor in United States Patent Number 7,321,992, "Reducing Application Downtime in a Cluster Using User-Defined Rules for Proactive Failover."